24 FAMILIAR WILD FLO WEES. 



are emitted from small lateral clefts ; the seeds themselves 

 are small and very numerous. 



Ten species of campanula are recognised as British, and 

 several other members of the genus, as the well-known 

 Canterbury-bell (C. medium], are familiar garden flowers. 

 Of the wild ones we have already figured the harebell the 

 " azured harebell " of Shakespeare, the " blue harebell" of 

 Ben Jonson, and a favourite with many others from whose 

 works we must now forbear to quote. In addition to the 

 present species, we shall hope to introduce to our readers the 

 clustered bell-flower and the nettle-leaved bell-flower, both 

 of them common, and both attractive and interesting 

 species. 



The generic name, as we have already pointed out 

 though we may here be allowed the repetition, to save 

 reference to a former description signifies a little bell, and 

 its appropriateness we need scarcely stay to dwell upon, 

 especially as we see the resemblance again insisted on in our 

 common English names for all the species bell-flowers. 



Both Gerarde and Parkinson describe the plant as of 

 a " watchet colour/' " Watchet " probably means " of the 

 colour of woad " that is, bluish. 



